ICE has taken a considerable amount of flak recently. Whether it’s because of their aggressive tactics, profiling innocent Americans by mistake, or harassing and snatching up immigrants in Gestapo-style tactics around the country. Anytime you hear about ICE, it’s rarely anything good, well, that changed as agents in Boston arrested a known and wanted immigrant with a long rap sheet.
In a post shared to the Massachusetts Reddit page by user VoytekDolinski, a photo can be seen with a pair of ICE agents, with their backs turned, of course, with a suspect in handcuffs. There isn’t any video of the arrest, but thanks to ICE.Gov, we know the details of who the man allegedly is.
According to ICE, he goes by Julio Soto-Heredia, and he is a wanted criminal in Massachusetts and his native home of the Dominican Republic. He was charged with Trump’s obsession, Fentanyl, possession of a firearm, and is wanted for firearms trafficking in the Dominican Republic. This is what ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston acting Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde had to say about the arrest.
Julio Soto-Heredia attempted to flee justice in the Dominican Republic by hiding out in Boston. In addition to his crimes in the Dominican Republic, Soto-Heredia is alleged to have illegally armed himself and attempted to peddle poison in our Massachusetts neighborhoods. ICE Boston will not stand idly by while illegal alien offenders victimize the residents of our New England communities. We will continue to prioritize public safety by arresting and removing criminal alien offenders.
Folks on Reddit had something to say, whether it was good or bad, and whether this arrest is essentially just good PR for the often-maligned agency.
“That’s excellent! Now they just need to have a hearing to provide evidence that it’s actually true, and off he goes!”
“Awesome”
“I want to know, what’s going to stop these criminals from just coming right back, especially if they have cartel connections?”
“What stops any other criminal besides change of heart, jail or death? Nothing but we can absolutely make it more difficult for them to get back here if they try”
If ICE were this committed to locking up actual criminals and people harming their communities, maybe people wouldn’t hate them so much. However, this story proves an old adage: even a broken clock is right twice a day.
